W7 system image

[stick1977]

I built out a Lenovo t520 with an encrypted OPAL hard drive. I have Windows fully patched, a bunch of freeware installed, Office installed etc...

I have another brand new t520 here w/encrypted drive that I have to build out as well so to make life easy (i thought) I just grabbed a system image from the other, already built out laptop and loaded it on new. Problem is that it blue screens on boot up.

One of the problems is that it's loading Windows onto the D: partition. I'm going to try to use diskpart to I dont know... move windows onto C:? But I'm just wondering if there's a better way to do this than using MS tools. The way I did it was all MS stuff... I booted the new laptop to a repair disk and loaded the image that way from my USB 500 GB hard drive, the image is 20 GB so it can't fit on a DVD. I'd be looking for a free utility to do this but would be willing to pay for a program if it was really good I guess. I have to build out a lot of these t520s so i'd be nice to do it from an image instead of loading WIndows from scratch.

I thought these Lenovo ThinkPad t520s were "business class" machines... meaning they all have the same components in them, not sure why the system image didn't work.

THanks.

 

[Rob_NNCC]

I had this problem with WDS. If you have any partition differences between the computers you will get a bluescreen. My issue was the dell utility part. If you deleted all the parts on the pc you installed from bare metal, then did not delete all the parts on the image to pc, it would load up windows as the wrong part.

Not sure if this is your problem, just throwing it out there. The other option is to do a whole disk clone using something like clonezilla.

 

[stick1977]

Yea I'll keep working on the partition issue to see if I can work it out but if not I'll just clone the disk. Thanks.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Haven't worked with the Opal drive...is it hardware FDE or software wrapped?